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Micro-blogging: Towards Temporal Micro-economics

‘As Oliver Selfridge puts it, an intimate, interactive conversation is, in some sense, the lack of it’. (Nicholas Negroponte) See also complete analysis HERE Launched in October 2006 and taking off worldwide in March 2007 by winning a...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 10/15/08 2

Hello Twitter! “I have forgotten my umbrella”

A good chance that while browsing through the endless database of Twitter one could come across a line like this: "I have forgotten my umbrella"...in fact you will. The expression of mundane or day to day activities and thoughts...

By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 10/14/08 3

Twitter and the Aphoristic Society

Twitter has been denounced by some as a useless waste of time. However, the short and snappy, "aphoristic" communication tool may also be a symptom of how people like to communicate today. The author argues that we are probably...

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Twitter, Micro-blogging and Mcdonaldization in the blogosphere

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To understand the logic of Twittering or microblogging as a blogging practise it might help looking at the...

By Alessandro Valente on 10/13/08 4

Secondary Orality in Microblogging

Orality versus literacy in the history of human consciousness In the book “Orality and Literacy: the Technologizing of the World”, Walter Ong compares orality and literacy, as defining features of oral cultures (cultures which do not have a system...

By Liliana Bounegru on 10/13/08 3

Twitter: ‘resistance is futile’

First of all I have to define twitter for myself, I have no clue where this...

By Wouter Dijkstra on 10/13/08 3

Twitter and Simple Forms of Literary Expression

Twitter is the most popular platform for microblogging, where short text updates(up to 140 words) are posted and distributed by means of instant messaging, sms, web interface. Microblogging is next in chain of technological tools for communication that follows...

By Maria Perevalova on 10/13/08 Comments Off

“To Twitt or Not To Twitt”

As it is defined in Wikipedia – Micro-blogging is a relatively new phenomenon defined as “a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) about your life on the go and send...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 10/13/08 Comments Off

Twitter – A Solitude Wail?

I follow you means I’m watching you and what you are pretending to be doing every second. Is that true? Or is it that I want everyone to watch me? In other words is Twitter a medium for creating...

By Cornelia Scripca on 10/12/08 2

Twitter: a Member of the Big Brother Family?

My first experience with Twitter was a kind of déjà-vu. I had seen something like this before, a few years ago. It was, I think, at a music festival. There was a big screen with a telephone number. You could...

By Arno de Natris on 10/12/08 3

Twitter’s Implications: Is Less Really More?

It’s around us everywhere. Increasingly, the trend of creating single-phrase sentences – or aphorisms – is taking over the way we write and read, on line and offline. It almost seems as though there is no more room for...

By Annewil Neervens on 10/12/08 1

The Long Now Of #picnic08: Microblogging And Networked Social Awareness In Live Events

Rather than reporting on a specific keynote, I would like to focus on something that has been experienced behind mobile screens and not on in front of the festival stages. Such phenomenon can be approached both as an emerging...

By Andrea Fiore on 10/12/08 Comments Off

Follow Me as I Follow You

There’s no easy or clear answer to the question ‘what is Twitter?’ as the service appears to be very simple. Users can create a profile within two minutes and start shouting something (tweet) with a maximum of 140 characters....

By Hannah Biemold on 10/12/08 Comments Off

Twitter World

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By Ali Balunywa on 10/11/08 Comments Off